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Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads and Malware

It’s been nearly a week since Demonoid went down following a huge
DDoS attack and still there is no sign that the site will return. If
anything, the situation has worsened somewhat. The site’s main domain is
now redirecting straight to an ad network serving up malware to
unsuspecting visitors.

Demonoid
is one of the world’s largest and longest standing sites that not only
indexes torrents, but also operates its own tracker.

Although the site has a reasonable uptime record, there have been a
few occasions where it has not only gone down, but has disappeared
completely. We are currently in one of those periods.

“There might have been an attack from another angle, an exploit of
sorts, but it’s hard to tell right now without a full check of
everything,” he told TorrentFreak.

What that attack is, or was, remains unclear, but today even more
problems are becoming apparent. On July 1 and then again today Aug 2,
the domain entries for Demonoid.me were updated and now the URL is
redirecting to straight to adverts. Unfortunately – and we presume this
is something Demonoid’s admin would be completely against – some of
those adverts contain a virus and other malware.

This particular one is redirecting to a variation of the 52664.bestfastget.com domain, a site with a particularly low trust rating.